Waking The Demons (A Bullet For My Valentine Fic)

Chapter One

*A/N: Hey all, so this is my new b4mv fic. This is pureply for fun and not to be taken seriously. This will be based around the most haunted episodes that the band were in. It may be a short story with the possibility of it being longer, depending how it goes. Anyway hope you enjoy and don't forget to vote and comment. x*

Waking the Demons

*Emz POV*

After three hours’ drive I had finally reached my destination, a small town in the south of Wales called Llandeilo, it was a beautiful little market town. One of the things I loved about the part time job I had was the beautiful locations I got to visit. My next task was to locate the Inn I would be staying at for the next few nights. Driving slowly towards the edge of the town I was able to locate the building and pull into the parking area. The building itself was an old country pub that had the upstairs floors converted into guest rooms and the bottom still remained a traditional pub/bar with an open fire place.

‘Welcome to the Outlook Inn, how may I help you today?’ A tall blonde haired woman greeted me as I approached the Inns reception desk, several bags in-hand.

‘Hi, I’ve got a room booked under the surname Hallows.’ She quickly began to type away on the computer in front of her.

‘There we go Miss Hallows. You’ll be in room 12 for the duration of your stay.’ She handed me a key along with a few leaflets about things to do in the local area. ‘The rooms are just to your right when you go up the flight of stairs.’ I nodded and said thank you before picking up my cases and turned around to go to my room.

‘And you aren’t even going to say hello to me?’ A familiar Scottish accent made me jump and spin around. Sitting on a bar stool behind where I was my good friend Steph, or Niemo as I knew her. I had known her for a good 4/5 years as we had been working together on various projects, the most recent was with the crew of Most Haunted. She hadn’t changed much since the last time I saw her a couple of months ago. The only notable change was that her long wavy hair was a gorgeous shade of lilac, no longer the brown it was when we last met. She still had her snake bites, nose and ear piercings. She wore a loose fitting Oogie Boogie t-shirt and dark leggings.

‘Niemo!’ I smiled as she greeted me with a hug. ‘It’s honestly so good to see you. I was going to call you once I got to my room to see when you’d be arriving but it seems you beat me here.’ She chuckled.

‘Yup, for once I’m actually the first one here. I got the train down last night and arrived early this morning.’ She took one of the bags off of me and carried it up the stairs for me.

‘Yvette and Karl not in yet?’ she shook her head.

‘I text Yvette this morning letting her know that I had arrived and she replied saying that something had come up at home so her and Karl wouldn’t be arriving till this evening. They should be arriving in time to meet the restaurant reservation at 8’

‘Aww well I hope everything is alright with them’ I said as I unlocked the door to room 12 and pushed the door open. It was a fairly small room, with a double bed, television, a chair and vanity table in the corner. ‘No en-suite huh?’ Steph laughed.

‘I’m next door in 11 and the room is exactly the same as this. There are some toilets at the end of the hall, and a bath/shower room next to it.’

‘So in other words it’s going to be a race to get showered in the morning before everybody else?’

‘Something like that. It’s only for a few nights and most of that time we won’t be here’ She did have a valid point. The reason we were in Llandeilo was for filming another episode of Most Haunted at Newton House, which was just outside of the town. We had been given two nights access to the building so this episode was going to be a special. All Karl had informed us was that we were going to be in for a surprise. This created a lot of phone calls between Steph and myself trying to guess what the surprise could be, but we were both as clueless as the other. As for work as part of the crew, Steph worked as a camera person, and I did the hair and make-up as well as being filmed with the others in the crew.  We had both met whilst working on an indie horror film and then just so happened to be in the right place at the right time, when Most Haunted were filming in the same location, got talking to them and ended up with part time work with them. We both loved it, anything paranormal or scary we were passionate about.

I walked over to the mirror on the vanity table and pulled my hair out from the ponytail that it was in letting my vivid red, with black under, hair fall down over my shoulders. ‘So come on, what’s the latest gossip with you? I haven’t spoken to you in what, 2 days?’

‘Trust me nothing new. I’m still struggling to find full time work at home.’ She sighed as she flopped down onto the bed.

‘Start looking in my area then, you know you can stay with me while you get yourself sorted. Plus it’d be a laugh’ I said as I reached for my handbag pulling out a packet of smokes. ‘Might even be worth mentioning to Karl, he knows a few of the right people and might be able to land you some work somewhere.’

‘I’m seriously considering it right now. I thought you were giving up?’ She nodded towards the cigarettes. I shrugged.

‘I always try to give up at the wrong times. Like I tried to give up last month, got stressed about something and the first thing I reached for were these. Before you say anything, I know it’s just an excuse and I promise I will try harder; I do want to give up. You want to come out with me? ’ I asked her.

‘Nuh ugh. You can go kill your lungs by yourself. I’m going to try catching a few z’s before we have to get ready for going out tonight. That train journey last night was a killer.’ I pulled out my phone to see that the time was now 3PM.

‘Well in that case I’ll come knocking on your door at about 6 to make sure you’re still alive and to get ready.’

‘Thanks hun. Can you also text Yvette? Just to see if things are alright and to tell her you’re here.’

‘Of course I will. Now off with you, go get your beauty sleep.’

‘Cheeky git’ she laughed slapping my arm, as we left the room before she headed into the next room which was her own.

I let out a groan as I walked outside it was now raining, typical, so I pulled up my hoody hood and quickly hurried out of the door and across the garden to where a large umbrella was set up with some chairs underneath. I sat myself down in one of the chairs and sparked up a smoked and took a deep inhale. After exhaling I dug into my pocket and pulled out my phone and tapped away at the screen sending a message to Yvette.

*Hey. Just wanted to let you know that I’ve arrived and that I’m looking forward to seeing you both soon.x*

‘I don’t suppose I could borrow your lighter could I please?’ I think my heart left my body through my throat as I jumped out of my skin, when the male voice spoke to me. He chuckled. ‘Sorry I didn’t mean to make you jump’ I looked up and smiled to him once my heart had calmed down a little. He had long dark brown hair, blue eyes, and a goatee beard. He was wearing a black leather jacket and dark combat trousers. Something about him was familiar.

‘Jump? I think you damn near killed me.’ I teased. He laughed. ‘Here you go’ I smiled passing him the lighter.

‘Thanks. Think I left mine back in my room’ He lit his cigarette before handing it back to me.

‘I should have been mean and said no after you tried to kill me’ I laughed.

‘Aw come on. You wouldn’t be cruel to a fellow maiden fan’ He must have noticed my Iron maiden converse that I was wearing.

‘In that case I won’t be cruel at all and I’ll forgive your little interruption’ I smiled.

‘Names Padge’ He offered me his hand to shake which I did.

‘Emma, but prefer Emz. Padge, that’s unusual.’ He took a seat on one of the chairs next to me.

‘My real names Michael, but everyone knows me as Padge.’ I nodded. ‘Are you staying in the inn?’

‘Yeah, just arrived about an hour ago. Here for a few nights. What about you?’

‘I’m staying too. Got an event going on nearby at Newton house.’

‘No shit, that’s the reason I’m here too.’

‘Filming Most Haunted?’ he asked.

‘That would be correct. Can I ask what you’ll be doing?’

‘I’m here with the band I’m in, we’re the guests.’ I looked at him for a moment, still trying to figure where I recognised him from.

‘I know I recognised your face from somewhere, but I’ll be honest I can’t put my finger on the band your in.’ he grinned at me.

‘Bullet for my valentine.’